How to find all running instances of ColdFusion on a server?

There are several ways. Here are the main ones, I’d think:

- assuming you created them with the main “cfusion” instance, using its Enterprise Manager>Instance Manager page, they would be listed there, with an indication of whether they are running

- in your OS, you could view any running instances. In Windows, you could use Task Manager, while in *nix you could use the top command. And in CF10 and later, they would be indicated (on Windows) as coldfusion.exe while on CF9 and earlier, they would be called jrun.exe. In Windows Task Manager, you can add a column (to the display of process details) called “command line”, which would show the command line used to start each instance (even if it was started as a Windows service)

- speaking of services, on Windows, you could of course also view running instances in the Services panel (assuming you indicated during their creation that a service should be created and used). There’s a corresponding means to list running daemons in *nix. This is also assuming you have indeed started the processes as a service (or daemon in *nix). You don’t have to start an instance that way, even if it’s configured to run as a service/daemon. One could start an instance from the command line, in which case again it will be listed as a running process by the OS, as discussed in the previous explanation

If this somehow doesn’t help and/or you have more questions on it, It may help a lot for you to indicate both the version of CF and the OS you’re running it on. And it would likely also help to explain why you’re asking (what challenge you’re facing).

But if this answered your question, great, in which case please do mark it as “the answer” in the web forum. Thanks.

/charlie